[moralhazard]

I've been having this problem off and on for a really long time: while in game, if certain special characters are used in a person's name they just appear as a white box. I'll attach a pic.



The problem comes and goes, it seems to be affected by game updates but not every update. I use some mods, but I have this problem even on a fresh install (uninstall, delete all remaining folders, reboot, reinstall, reboot). I was able to fix it once upon a time ago by installing all the Windows language packs, but now I have them all installed and the boxes have resurfaced.

I can see the person's name fine if I shift+tab and view a list of players currently in-game, or navigate to their Steam profile. It's just within the actual game: scoreboard, targetid, chat, kill icons.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to fix this? It's generally not a big issue, just a pain to look at, but sometimes there'll be people whose whole name is these absurd characters so I don't know whose name to call out to.

Running Win7 64bit.

Thanks much.

[DataStorm]

its them using those characters that are not covered in TF2 font files.

In short: everybody has it.

[moralhazard]

Not everybody has it; others on the team are able to see the person's name fine, the person is obviously able to see it on their system, and I'm able to see the characters sporadically depending on if the most recent update has affected it.